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Paul Landowski

1875 - 1961

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Paul Maximilien Landowski (1 June 1875 – 31 March 1961) was a French monument sculptor of Polish descent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Landowski has received more than 313,971 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Paul Landowski is the 26th most popular sculptor (down from 24th in 2019), the 827th most popular biography from France (down from 812th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Sculptor.

Paul Landowski is most famous for his sculpture of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Paul Landowski ranks 26 out of 258Before him are Jacopo Sansovino, Luca della Robbia, Alessandro Algardi, Giovanni Pisano, Alexander Calder, and Andrea Pisano. After him are Gustav Vigeland, Leochares, Rosa Bonheur, Antoine Bourdelle, Andrea della Robbia, and Claus Sluter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Paul Landowski ranks 24Before him are John Buchan, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Marie of Romania, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Giovanni Gentile, and Fritz Kreisler. After him are Zhang Zuolin, Antonio Machado, Edgar Wallace, Matthias Erzberger, D. W. Griffith, and Mihály Károlyi. Among people deceased in 1961, Paul Landowski ranks 18Before him are Mohammed V of Morocco, Rafael Trujillo, Otto Loewi, Adnan Menderes, Frantz Fanon, and Zog I of Albania. After him are Kurt Meyer, Luigi Einaudi, Dashiell Hammett, Maria of Yugoslavia, Lee de Forest, and Akiba Rubinstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Landowski ranks 827 out of 6,770Before him are Didier Deschamps (1968), Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725), Isabella of Angoulême (1188), Félix Guattari (1930), Louis the Blind (880), and Henry II, Count of Champagne (1166). After him are Magnentius (303), Nicolas Oudinot (1767), Joscelin I, Count of Edessa (1072), Louis I, Duke of Anjou (1339), Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804), and Maurice Denis (1870).

Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Paul Landowski ranks 6Before him are Auguste Rodin (1840), Camille Claudel (1864), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Giambologna (1529), and Marie Tussaud (1761). After him are Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), Louise Bourgeois (1911), François Rude (1784), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716).